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About

Njira Lugogo, MD, MS, Professor of Internal Medicine, is the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine's Asthma Program Director. Dr. Lugogo completed her Medical Degree at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. After she completed her Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Duke University, she rose to Assistant Professor. At Duke, Dr. Lugogo served as the Medical Director of the Duke Asthma Allergy and Airway Center and Director of the Asthma Clinical Trails Group and Pulmonary Clinical Research Unit. She joined the University of Michigan Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine faculty August, 2017.

Specialty

• Pulmonary Diseases

• Critical Care Medicine

• Internal Medicine

Area of Practice

• Adult asthma care including management of severe asthma, biologic therapies, bronchial thermoplasty, and chronic cough.

Research Focus

• New therapies for severe asthma

• Management of severe asthma

• Obesity and asthma

• Biomarkers and asthma phenotyping